1971 IN FILM

The year '1971 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1971

Births

Deaths

Events

★ February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, ''Eat the Document'', premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour

★ The first permanent IMAX projection system is installed at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto.

★ April 23 - The film ''Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song'' becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971.

Top grossing films

:North America
#''Fiddler on the Roof'', starring Topol
#''Billy Jack''
#''The French Connection'', starring Gene Hackman
#''Summer of '42''
#''Diamonds Are Forever'', with Sean Connery
#''Dirty Harry''
#''A Clockwork Orange''
#''Carnal Knowledge''
#''Bedknobs and Broomsticks''
#''Willard''
#''The Hospital''
#''Klute''
#''The Andromeda Strain''
#''Big Jake''

Awards

'Academy Awards:'
:Best Picture: '''The French Connection''' - D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox
:Best Director: 'William Friedkin' - ''The French Connection''
:Best Actor: 'Gene Hackman' - ''The French Connection''
:Best Actress: 'Jane Fonda' - ''Klute''
:Best Supporting Actor: 'Ben Johnson' - ''The Last Picture Show''
:Best Supporting Actress: - 'Cloris Leachman' - ''The Last Picture Show''
:Best Foreign Language Film: '''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis''' (''Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini''), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy / W. Germany
'Golden Globe Awards:'
:'Drama:'
:Best Picture: '''The French Connection'''
:Best Actor: 'Gene Hackman' - ''The French Connection''
:Best Actress: 'Jane Fonda' - ''Klute''
:'Musical or comedy:'
:Best Picture: '''Fiddler on the Roof'''
:Best Actor: 'Topol' - ''Fiddler on the Roof''
:Best Actress: 'Twiggy' - ''The Boy Friend''
:'Other'
:Best Director: 'William Friedkin' - ''The French Connection''
'Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):'
:'''The Go-Between''', directed by Joseph Losey, United Kingdom
'Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):'
:'''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis''' (''Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini''), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy / W. Germany

Films released in 1971

★ ''And Now For Something Completely Different''

★ ''The Andromeda Strain''

★ ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks''

★ ''Big Jake''

★ ''Billy Jack''

★ ''The Boy Friend''

★ ''Brian's Song''

★ ''Carnal Knowledge''

★ ''A Clockwork Orange''

★ ''Death in Venice'' (''Morte a Venezia'')

★ ''The Devils''

★ ''Diamonds Are Forever''

★ ''Dirty Harry''

★ ''The Emigrants''

★ ''Escape from the Planet of the Apes''

★ ''The French Connection''

★ ''Fiddler on the Roof''

★ ''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'' (''Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini'')

★ ''The Go-Between'' Palme d'Or winner

★ ''Godzilla vs. Hedorah''

★ ''Guddi''

★ ''Harold and Maude''

★ ''The Hired Hand''

★ ''The Hospital''

★ ''I, Monster''

★ ''Just avant la nuit'' (aka ''Just Before Nightfall'')

★ ''Klute'', starring Jane Fonda

★ ''Kotch'', starring Walter Matthau

★ ''The Last Picture Show''

★ ''Love''

★ ''Macbeth''

★ ''McCabe & Mrs. Miller''

★ ''Melody''

★ ''Mon oncle Antoine'', considered by critics the greatest Canadian film of all time

★ ''A New Leaf'', starring Elaine May and Walter Matthau

★ ''Nicholas and Alexandra''

★ ''Plaza Suite'', starring Walter Matthau

★ ''A Safe Place''

★ ''Shaft''

★ ''She Killed in Ecstasy''

★ ''Something Big''

★ ''Straw Dogs''

★ ''Summer of '42''

★ ''Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song''

★ ''They Call Me Trinity'', spaghetti western with Terence Hill

★ ''The Touch of Satan''

★ ''Trafic''

★ ''Twitch of the Death Nerve''

★ ''Two-Lane Blacktop''

★ ''Vanishing Point''

★ ''Wake in Fright''

★ ''Walkabout'', directed by Nicolas Roeg

★ ''Werewolves on Wheels''

★ ''Willard''

★ ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''

★ ''The Working Class Goes to Heaven'', Palme d'Or winner

★ ''

Births

★ February 17 - Denise Richards, actress

★ March 31 - Ewan McGregor

★ April 18 - David Tennant

★ May 14 - Sofia Coppola

★ August 31 - Chris Tucker, actor

★ October 29 - Winona Ryder, American actress.

★ November 25 - Christina Applegate

★ December 26 - Jared Leto, American actor and musician

Deaths

★ January 5 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer

★ January 15 - John Dall, actor

★ February 26 - Fernandel, actor

★ March 8 – Harold Lloyd, silent screen comedian

★ March 15 - Bebe Daniels, actress

★ May 1 - Glenda Farrell, actress

★ May 27 - Chips Rafferty, Australian actor

★ May 28 - Audie Murphy, World War II hero became film actor after the war

★ July 3 - Jim Morrison, songwriter, poet, musician

★ July 6 - Louis Armstrong, musician, actor

★ July 23 - Van Heflin, actor

★ August 15 - Paul Lukas, actor

★ September 7 - Spring Byington, actress

★ September 10 - Pier Angeli, actress

★ September 11 - Bella Darvi, actress

★ October 11 - Chester Conklin, actor

★ October 26 - Vincent Coleman, actor

★ November 17 - Gladys Cooper, actress

★ December 13 - Dita Parlo, actress

★ December 18 - Diana Lynn, actress

★ December 28 - Max Steiner, film composer

★ December 30 - Dorothy Comingore, actress best known as Susan Kane in ''Citizen Kane''

★ December 31 - Pete Duel 31, actor (suicide)

★ December 31 - Marin Sais, actress